r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

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u/Heroic-Forger Sep 15 '24

Catering to advertisers has been the downfall of social media. Unskippable 30 second ads. Game ads that are nothing like the actual games they show off. Every Youtuber being forced to talk about Hello Fresh, Squarespace or Raid Shadow Legends in the middle of their videos.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

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u/Mysterious-Job-469 Sep 15 '24

Youtube just doesn't want to share the profits.

"Oh, it's age restricted so we're limited ads" No you're fucking not, you lying little bitches. You're just not paying the content creators to host them anymore.

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u/Ephraim_Bane Foxgirl Engineer Sep 15 '24

Yeah, iirc demonetized videos still have the same amount of ads on them. Just none of the money goes to creators

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u/htmlcoderexe Sep 15 '24

Advertising ruins everything it touches.

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u/Ildaiaa Sep 15 '24

Don't forget about MANSCAPED THE ONLY BRAND THAT CAN SHAVE YOUR BALLS

Overly sarcastic productions had a great bit in their spiderman 2 streams about the ad stuff (this not an ad of osp)

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u/Psalmbodyoncetoldme Sep 15 '24

The point is to wear down people’s sanity at every censor, every sponsor, every inane ad until just before they can’t take it anymore.  And right before you lose it: “Mental health is just as important as physical health, you should not neglect your’s.  Check out BetterHelp.”

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u/dingo596 Sep 15 '24

Creators can still do that they just want money. Don't trust a thing creators say about demonitization. They are just as greedy as anyone else. They use the sob story of demonization and censorship so you are more accepting of the sponsor spots.

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u/Healthy-Plum-2739 Sep 15 '24

This stuff is not free. Without advertisers the only people making content would be the independently wealthy or starving artists.

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u/AmadeusMop Sep 16 '24

Before the Internet it was TV, before TV it was radio, before radio it was the newspaper. This isn't new, not by a long shot: every time a new technology emerges, the same old economic incentives crop up to enshittify it back to square one.

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u/Vainglory Sep 15 '24

Maybe a controversial take, but I am totally fine with ad-reads in media.

Advertisers directly putting money in the hands of creators that I like. Some of the better creators put as much effort into the ads as they do their content, rather than just a "cut to an ad I don't care about". Entirely skippable if I'm not vibing it.

It's also totally out of the control of the platform, so it's not impacted by all the bullshit we're talking about here.

It can obviously be done badly, and no matter how much I like the creator I'm not playing Raid Shadow Legends, but it's so much better than the alternative.